Vandals desecrated several copies of the Quran inside the multi-faith room of Malta's Mater Dei hospital, the Times of Maltareported Saturday. The offenders left slices of pork bacon in between the pages of the book.

Lying next to the bacon-covered Quran was a printout featuring the name and face of Fr. Jacques Hamel, who was killed earlier this week in Normandy, France. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for his death.

The page said that Hamel was a "victim of Islam and its liberal/progressive apologists."

"This criminal act was done by sick people," the Islamic Community of Malta wrote on its Facebook page. "We as Muslims living in Malta will not play their game . We could say like all the haters and fools that this was an act of Christian terrorism but we don't generalize like those perpetrators who have the same agenda as other terrorist groups, encouraging hate in this beautiful country."